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Small Satellites Soar in High-Altitude Demonstration
June 18, 2013 — Four tiny spacecraft soared over the California desert June 15 in a high-altitude demonstration flight that tested the sensor and equipment designs created by NASA engineers and student launch ... > full story -
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Finding All Asteroid Threats to Human Populations: NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge
June 18, 2013 — NASA has announced a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The challenge is a large-scale effort that will use ... > full story -
Cassini Probe to Take Photo of Earth from Deep Space
June 18, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19. NASA is inviting the public to help acknowledge ... > full story -
Possible Record-Setting Deadzone for Gulf of Mexico Predicted
June 18, 2013 — Scientists are forecasting that this year's Gulf of Mexico hypoxic "dead" zone will be between 7,286 and 8,561 square miles which could place it among the ten largest recorded. A second forecast, for ... > full story -
Long Distance Calls by Sugar Molecules
June 18, 2013 — All our cells wear a coat of sugar molecules, so-called glycans. Researchers have now discovered that glycans rearrange water molecules over long distances. This may have an effect on how cells sense ... > full story -
Tiny Batteries: 3-D Printing Could Lead to Miniaturized Medical Implants, Compact Electronics, Tiny Robots
June 18, 2013 — Three-dimensional printing can now be used to print lithium-ion microbatteries the size of a grain of sand. The printed microbatteries could supply electricity to tiny devices in fields from medicine ... > full story -
Personality Test Finds Some Mouse Lemurs Shy, Others Bold
June 18, 2013 — In the last 10 years the study of animal personality has gained ground with behavioral ecologists. Researchers have now found distinct personalities in the grey mouse lemur, the tiny, saucer-eyed ... > full story -
Chemical Probe Confirms That Body Makes Its Own Rotten Egg Gas, H2S, to Benefit Health
June 18, 2013 — A new study confirms directly what scientists previously knew only indirectly -- that poisonous "rotten egg" gas hydrogen sulfide is generated by the body's blood vessel cells. Researchers made the ... > full story -
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Fiber-Optic Pen Helps See Inside Brains of Children With Learning Disabilities
June 18, 2013 — For less than $100, researchers have designed a computer-interfaced drawing pad that helps scientists see inside the brains of children with learning disabilities while they read and ... > full story -
Getting Enough Sleep Could Help Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
June 18, 2013 — Getting more sleep increases insulin sensitivity and reduces the risk of type 2 ... > full story
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